On the occasion of our 62nd Independence Day Celebration, Indians have yet another reason to be proud of. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has launched Bhuvan, a free online service for geo-mapping, for better rural planning and visualisation. This service makes use of the iamges taken from the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite.
How to use Bhuvan?
- First, you need to register with Bhuvan website.
- Then, you need to download Bhuvan Plug-in and install it in your machine. The total size of this installable is around 11 MB (the recommended version of the plug-in).
- Once you done with the above two steps, then you are good to access the Buvan geoportal. After you log-in, the portal directly takes you to the india map.
Some good things about Bhuvan:
- First of all, the service is designed to work well even in low bandwidth internet connection, which is very common in India.
- It provides the navigation controls for zooming in/out, tiliting the map, etc. You can also use mouse for navigating the map. The Heads-up-display (HUD) control design is very cool.
- Bhuvan gives several in-built layers such as Transportation, Rivers which you can select and see on the map.
- Shadow Analysis – allows you to turn-on the shadows on the map based on the time of the day. Interesting.
Few Screenshots: (Click to see bigger picture)
Bhuvan Geo-mapping portal User interface
locations of Mumbai displayed on the Map in Bhuvan
Somewhere around Chennai, Tamilnadu
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